Robert (Polly) came from Bullpasture river and was of the group-family to
which John G. of Kentucky belonged. He died in 1823, an old man.
C: John, Jane ( Graham), Joseph, Elizabeth (
Ham), Samuel, Nancy ( Glenn), Mary ( Mims?), Margaret (
Alford), James.
In 1782 Joseph and David had military claims on Indian. The latter was
appraised, 1786, by John Hutchinson, Hugh Caperton, Roger Kilpatrick,
Valentine Cook.
William (1815-1895) was a native of New York City and came here in 1835.

The Charltons crossed the ocean to Philadelphia about 1750. One of them was
Thomas, who died in that city in 1791, leaving to his cousin Thomas 30 pounds
and all his wearing apparel. His benevolence is illustrated by his legacy of
60 pounds to the poor among the communicants of his church. The second Thomas
(1741-1819) (Alice Perry, 1763) came here about 1792 and settled on a large
tract between Hillsdale and New Lebanon. It is said he was the first pioneer
to arrive in a wagon. It was a four-horse conveyance with a canoe-shaped bed,
and it held himself and wife, their eight children, and their household goods
He is also credited with bringing the eglantine to Monroe. The two roomed log
house he built stood by the spring near the home of S. R. H. Irons. The only
one of his children with descendants in the county was his youngest son,
Joseph (b. 1784, m. Janet Ewing, 1807)-C: Frances -Oliver-Thomas
-JennieLettiJoseph P. E.-James E. Like three of the sisters of their father,
the three daughters of Thomas, Sr., never married, but lived most of their
lives in a home of their own. The door of John’s house was made like a slat
curtain or a stave hammock, and in the day time was rolled up and fastened by
pins above the door.

JOHNSON, Thomas Cary, educator, was born at Fishbok Hill, Monroe county, Va.,
July 19, 1859; son of Thomas and Alinerva. (Hinchman) Johnson; grandson of
Barnabas and Sarah (Thomas) Johnson and of William and Mary (Simms) Hinchman,
and a descendant of Scotch, Irish, Huguenot, Dutch and English ancestors. He
was graduated from Hampden-Sidney college, Va., in 1881, took diplomas in
Latin, Greek and mathematics at the University of Virginia, 1883-84, graduated
from Union Theological seminary, Va., in 1887, and was a special student at
the Yale Divinity school, 1887-88. He was licensed by the presbytery of
Greenbrier, W. Va., in May, 1887; was professor of Greek and Hebrew exegesis
at Austin Theological school, Texas, 1888-90, and was also assistant professor
of mental and moral philosophy at the University of Texas during those years.
He was ordained by the presbytery of Central Texas in August, 1890, and was a
stated supply and pastor-elect of the 3d Presbyterian church at Louisville,
Ky., 1890-91. He was professor of English Bible and pastoral theology at Union
Theological seminary, Virginia, 1891-92, and became professor of
ecclesiastical
history and polity there in 1892. He was elected a member of the American
Historical association. He received from Hampden-Sidney college the degree
of D.D. in 1891, and that of LL.D. in 1899. He is the author of: A History
of the Southern Presbyterian Church (1894, in Vol. XI. of the American Church
History Series); Alleged Differences Between the Northern and Southern
Presbyterian Churches (1894); Ministerial Training (1896-97); A Brief Sketch
of the United Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
(1897); The Mode of Baptism in the Apostolic Age (1899); John Calvin and the
Genevan Reformation: A Sketch (1899). He also edited the collected writings
of the Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Peck, and contributed numerous articles to
periodicals
and newspapers.

William (1732-1799) (Elizabeth Step, d. 1830) was one of the 10 children of
William, Sr., who came from Scotland to the vicinity of where after-ward
arose the city of Washington. With several of his brothers he served in the
American Army of the Revolution. Shortly after that event he left his home on
the Rapidan and after a short stay in Albemarle he journeyed to Indian Creek
with two horses, one cow, and a few household goods, arriving at Benjamin
Harvey’s on Christmas night, 1793. He acquired no realty. The years in which
he was born and died were precisely the same as in the case of the Father of
his Country. C: Johnson (Ky.)-Jeremiah (1777-1867) (Jaley Thompson)-Lucy
(John Stodghill, John Good-all)-Millie (Jacob Mann, 1804)-William (1784-1880)
(Mollie Snow)-Nancy (William Farrell )-Mollie (Mathias Kessinger,
1803)-Willis (1791-1880) (Isabel Thompson, 1813)-James (Jennie Keaton, 1804).
C. of Jeremiah: Elizabeth (Andrew Campbell)-Margaret (Anderson
Keaton, 1831, Robert D. Shanklin)-John (b. 1818) (Jane Dennis)-Baldwin (b.
1821) (Emily Mann, 1847) (Leah Mann, 1850)-Riley (1823-1915)
(Amanda Cummings)-Lewis (d. 1906) (Malinda 3. Spangler, 1854)-Mary
(1830-1914) (John Hecht)-Frank (1833-1915) (Lizzie Chapman,
1866).
C. of Baldwin: Allen T. by 2d w.-Simpson S. (s)-Marion C. (Kate
Humphreys, 1878)-Henry (Jennie McNeer, 1885)-Jeremiah (Amanda
Burdett, 1883, Mamie Hinkle, 1913)-Margaret (Charles Lingo) -Wallace
(Cornelia Humphreys)-Isaac N. (Kate M. Walkup, 1893)-Emma A.
(Henderson Reed)-Charles S. (Ida Borden, Nancy Buchanan).
C. of Frank: India W., Don B., Cora, Eva L., Roland E.
Willis and Jeremiah purchased in 1817 of the heirs of Daniel Jarrell, 280
acres for $350. This property still remains in the Willis branch.
C. of Willis: Thompson (b. 1814) (Anna Miller, 1841)-Elizabeth (Henly Mann,
1833)-George (1819-1879) (Delilah Mann, 1838)-Wil-liam (1821-1914) (Elizabeth
Riner, 1914)-Harrison (Huldah Mann, 1847)
-Susan (1826-1914) (Samuel Miller)-Sylvester (Lucinda Riner, 1848)-Nancy
(1830-1904) (Eli Mann, 1850)-Hugh (b. 1836) (Rachel Mann, 1866). All these
sons except Hugh, who had the homestead, opened new farms on Stinking Lick.
C. of Thompson: Overton (d. ’63), Willia, (d. ’62), Isabella (b. 1844)
(Lewis Campbell), John T. (b. 1845), Ellen (Dayton Humphreys), Millard F.
(Lydia Keatly), James K. (Mary Campbell), Agnes (Henry Wills), Sarah A.
(James McClaugherty).
C. of George: Polly (1839-1861) (Garland Hurt), Isabella (Henry Humphreys),
James (Mary Wills), Clayton (Ellen Spangler), Jarrett (Mary Spangler), Gaston
(Catharine Spangler, Molly Thompson)
C. of William: Marinda (b. 1849) (Lewis Ellison), Amanda (Henderson Barton)
Molly (John Spangler), Juretta (William Keatly), Martha (John Keatly).
C. of Harrison: Maston (b. 1848) ( Barton, Ruth Smith), Mary (Wilson Davis),
Isabella (Benjamin Tinsley), Delilah (Lewis Mea-dows), Nelson (Elizabeth
Hanks), Grant (Lidia Bonham), Sylvester (-Chambers).
C. of Sylvester: George (Margaret Thompson).
C. of Hugh: Oliver (Kate Broyles), Molly (F. G. Lilly), Annie L. (Sylvester
A. Miller).
The Ballards are remarkable for longevity and they constitute a numerous
connection. The five brothers of William, Jr., came to Monroe before he did,
but we have little knowledge of them. Curtis (Esther) moved from Hans Creek
to Ohio in 1810. His daughter Sarah married Isaac Hutchinson in 1801.
Baldwin Ballard, 95 years of age as we go to press, is of striking
personality and has had an eventful career. A white swelling in his ankle
made him a cripple at the age of 12. A few years later he removed a
splintered bone by the free use of a razor and kept on hoeing corn to the
close of the day. He learned to sew and to weave and followed the tailoring
trade more than 20 years, doing much of his work at the homes of his patrons.
He thus traveled much territory on the east of the lower course of the
Grecobrier. In partnership with his brother John he purchased in 1845 the
farm on which he now lives. Previous to the war he carried on for a while a
mercantile career in connection with his tailoring business. The latter came
to an end with the appearance of ready-made clothing in the stores. Mr.
Ballard was one of the three men at Greenville who voted against secession.
His lameness rendered him exempt from military service but his opposition to
the Confederate cause was uncompromising. His unconcealed sympathy with the
North made his position a trying one, yet he did not discriminate in the
matter of hospitality. Many a time Confederate soldiers ate at his table
while at the same time Union soldiers or runaways were concealed in the loft.
On one occasion he was brought into Greenville under arrest and for a while
it looked as though he would he hanged, but the intercession of neighbors who
nevertheless were of Confederate feeling caused him to he let off with a
lecture and a warning. At another time he was fired upon and his horse
wounded. During the reconstruction period he was six years a justice of the
peace and it has been his boast that not one of his decisions was ever
reversed by a higher Court. Mr. Ballard has been very successful as a
business man and is one of the wealthiest stockgrowers of Monroe. He is quick
at repartee, as is well known to those acquainted with him. His iron will and
inflexible convictions have in polidcal discussion made him able to give as
well as take blow for blow. Yet he is a personage of kindly nature, and now
that the tempestuous period of the 60’s and 70’s has receded almost half a
century into the background, his relations with his neighbors are entirely
cordial. With his second wife he lived happily for the remarkable span of 65
years.
Others of the connection also espoused the Federal cause. Frank, son of
Jerry, became a captain of WeSt Virginia state troops, and his was the first
Federal cortunand to enter Monroe county. He was at Cloyd’s Mountain and in
other engagements. During the reconstruction period he served as county
superintendent, twice as delegate to the legislature, and once as prosecuting
attorney. He secured the passage of a law permitting a landholder to pass
through the land of another to reach a public road.
Lewis Ballard sat in the West Virginia legislature in 1863, and was the first
sheriff of Monroe after the war. His property had been confiscated in 1863,
but he made his escape from the military prison at Salisbury, N. C.

William came from the Cowpasture at a very early day. He settled on the
Gaston Caperton place, was constable, 1773, and was a prominent member of the
Rehoboth congregation. The family went to Kentucky. John was a son and Isabel
(Abner Wiseman, 1800) a daughter or granddaughter.

William (d. 1836) was a son of James of Culpeper county. He settled on Flat
Top about 1800, as a neighbor to Andrew Miller, with whom he was on close
terms of friendship. After his second marriage he moved to Wolf Creek. He was
resourceful and ingenious. He m. (1) Sarah Cornwell of Edward, (2)
Scott.
C: Isham (Nancy Shumate, 1805)-Elizabeth (Tolison Shumate)-Margaret (William
Walker, 1808)
-Miles ( Legg)-Willis (Nancy Boon of John, 1807)-Rachel( Aymick)-William
(Clay Co.)-Archibald (Rhoda Shumate)-John ( Swope)-Alexander (Mary L.
Hill)-Ruth (John Robersen, 1816c)-Eliza; by 2d w.-Harvey (dy)-Lewis (
Hedrick)-Clarkson ( Burns).
The wife of Isham, while working as a girl in the sugar orchard, carried a
bucket of sap in each hand and another on her head. The first of her 12
children were twins, and when the third was a baby she would ride to her
father’s home, 35 miles away, carrying the baby in front and the twins behind
her. The return would be made the next day. She lived to the age of 98, at
which time there were 89 descendants of her children.
C. of Isham: Sarah, Mary, Abner (Tex.), Granville, Nancy 3., Julia A., James
H., Andrew 3., Elizabeth S., Joseph H., Lewis A.
C. of Alexander: Lucy 3. (Samuel Gwinn), Elizabeth A. (James E. Miller),
Sarah (James Y. Miller). Emmeline (Harry Shanklin), Eliza, James, William,
Lee, Powell. William was a Confederate scout who did not think he could get
lost in West Virginia. His captain said he fired the first shot in the war in
West Virginia and the last in Virginia.
A number of the above connection entered the ministry.
Another early Burdette was Giles (d. before 1829) (Sarah Dunbar).
C: John (1795-1882) (Lydia Curry, 1816). C. of John: Sarah A. (1817-1895)
(James M. Nickell, 1833)-Mary (1824-1894) (James Crawford, 1840)-Elizabeth
3. (Andrew F. Young, 1855)-Rebecca M. (E. F. Patton)-Lydia S. (A. F.
Wickline, 1864)-Robert C. (1819-1893) (Elizabeth B. Curry)-James H.
(1821-1890) (Rachel M. Christian, 1847)-John C. (Mary C. Lynch, 1851)-Calvin
H. (Barbara A. Curry, 1849)-Franklin C. (b. 1832) (Elizabeth A. Ford, 1858,
Arlie Smithwick, 1870)
C. of Archibald (Margaret) (d. 1834): Archibald, James, Polly, Margaret,
Elizabeth ( Holmes), Sam~el (has James and Archibald).